Google doodles celebrate Iraq’s contemporary painter Naziha Salim

Google Celebrating Naziha Salim Doodle Today: Search engine Google has remembered Naziha Salim, one of Iraq’s most influential artists, with a doodle on April 23, 2022. Nazia Salim was an Iraqi painter and professor. Who has depicted the life of rural Iraqi women well through their art. Two pictures are visible in the doodle of the search engine Google, in which Naziha Salim can be seen holding a paint brush on one side and on the other hand, a glimpse of his painting is being seen in the second picture.

Nazia Salim was born in 1927 in Istanbul, Turkey. His father was a painter himself and mother was an expert in the art of embroidery. Naziha Salim had three brothers, who worked only in the field of art. One of his brothers was considered one of Iraq’s most influential sculptors. At the same time, his second brother was a designer while the third brother Rashid was a political cartoonist. Nazia Salim started showing interest in art at a very young age.

He did his graduation from Baghdad Fine Arts. Salim was an expert in fresco and mural painting in Paris. Due to her hard work and interest in art, Salim became the first woman to be awarded a scholarship to pursue further studies at the cole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After completing his studies, Salim lived abroad for a few years.

However, Salim later returned to Baghdad to teach in fine arts and retired from there. She was one of the founders of Iraq’s al-Ruwad. Al-Ruwad is a community of Iraqi artists who study abroad and incorporate European art techniques into Iraqi aesthetics.